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Professor Sir Ross Cranston

Professor of Law
LSE Law School

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Sir Ross Cranston has been a professor of law since 2017. He was a judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division for just over nine years from late 2007 and the judge in charge of the Administrative Court from January 2016. From 2017 he sat part-time in the Commercial and Administrative Courts. Previously he was Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at LSE and then a Centennial Professor. He was MP for Dudley North 1997-2005 and Solicitor General for England and Wales 1998-2001. He was Lubbock Professor of Banking Law, Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Dean of Laws at Queen Mary, University of London. He has also held full time teaching positions at the University of Warwick and the Australian National University. He was made QC (now KC) in 1998. As counsel he appeared before the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords, and before the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He was educated in the University of Queensland, Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford. He has held consultancies with UNCTAD, the World Bank, the IMF and the Commonwealth Secretariat to advise different countries on their commercial, banking and securities laws. From 2005-2016 undertook reviews for the European Commission of the legal systems of Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. He has been a member of the legal advisory panel of the National Consumer Council, a founding trustee of Build It International, and the chair of trustees of the whistle-blower’s charity, Protect, and of BAILII. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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